An upgrade of Topsail, ITS’ Dell research computing cluster, will place it among the top 20 supercomputers worldwide according to the most recent Top500 computer rankings. Currently, Topsail has a computational capability of 6.252 teraflops. With the upgrade, Topsail’s computational capability will exceed 20 teraflops – more than 20 trillion calculations per second. Continue Reading
Due to restructuring, Enterprise Data Management will be integrated into other ITS divisions.
Scientific Database Support and Shared Applications will report to Research Computing. Shared Dataspace, which has been renamed the Enterprise Storage Group, will be headed by Brent Caison and will report to Infrastructure and Operations. Database Administration, Enterprise Data Warehouse and Enterprise Reporting will move to Enterprise Applications. Steve Cornelison, acting assistant vice chancellor, will also move to Enterprise Applications.
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On-call pay and shift premium pay sheets for biweekly #16 ending Sunday, Feb. 4 will be due to the designated boxes or to the ITS business office no later than 10 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 5.
ITS business office boxes are located in Giles Horney, the Undergraduate Library, Phillips Hall, Abernethy Hall, Carr Mill Annex and the Administrative Office Building.
Forms should be sent to the attention of Nealy Hall at CB# 1150
On Wednesday, Jan. 24, representatives from St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y., visited UNC-Chapel Hill to learn more about ITS programs such as the Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) and to compare notes about services such as IT support, networking and messaging.
St. John’s CIO Joseph Tufano discusses ITS programs with Tim Coynesmith, Lenovo certified project executive, and Linwood Futrelle, ITS manager of the CRC. Continue Reading
John Oberlin, associate vice chancellor for IT Planning and Technology Assessment, will present at the Worldwide Education and Research Conference (WWERC) in San Francisco, Calif., Feb. 6-8. The WWERC, hosted annually by Sun Microsystems, promotes the use of technology and innovation in education. Continue Reading
Faculty, staff and students with CCI laptops affected by the Lenovo battery recall are asked to bring their recalled battery to the ITS Response Center in the basement of the Undergraduate Library by Friday, Feb. 9. Continue Reading
On Saturday, Jan. 27, beginning at 7 p.m., all computing systems housed in ITS Franklin will be offline for an estimated 4 hours to allow a reconfiguration of the electrical power distribution in building. Affected systems include all mainframe applications, UNC-Chapel Hill Web sites, the Topsail research computing cluster and mass storage. E-mail will remain available throughout this maintenance. Continue Reading
Welcome Tosha Woods to User Support and Engagement, effective Jan. 12… Wendy Dascoli to Communications, effective Jan. 12…and Daniel McLamb to User Support and Engagement, effective Jan. 22.
Farewells to Chris Colomb of Enterprise Applications, effective Jan. 12…Doug Brown of Information Security, effective Jan. 19 … and Heather Pilkington, Infrastructure and Operations, effective Jan. 24.
